Best practices for importing large CSV files

Question

My company gets a set of CSV files full of bank account info each month that I need to import into a database. Some of these files can be pretty big. For example, one is abo

Answer 1

You can use generator for memory efficient file ready. The small snippet below might help you.

#Method
public function getFileRecords($params)
{
    $fp = fopen('../' . $params['file'] . '.csv', 'r');
    //$header = fgetcsv($fp, 1000, ','); // skip header

    while (($line = fgetcsv($fp, 1000, ',')) != FALSE) {
        $line = array_map(function($str) {
            return str_replace('\N', '', $str);
        }, $line);

        yield $line;
    }

    fclose($fp);

    return;
}

#Implementation
foreach ($yourModel->getFileRecords($params) as $row) {
    // you get row as an assoc array;
    $yourModel->save($row);
}